Non-goals

Does not have to support the runtime installation of kernel modules. This will prevent the out-of-the-box installation of, for example:

  • Proprietary NVIDIA kernel driver (NVIDIA GPUs must either be new enough to use the open-source kernel modules that can be distributed in-tree, or else use Nouveau)
  • VirtualBox (requires out-of-tree modules; QEMU/KVM probably do a better job anyway)
  • Vendor-specific VPNs that require custom out-of-tree kernel modules that cannot be redistributed with the kernel due to license incompatibility

Does not have to support the use case of developing low-level system components like the kernel, drivers, systemd, etc., as this can be troublesome with an immutable base OS.

Does this part mean there will also be no support for ZFS?

  • Leaflet@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    If they’re not including the proprietary Nvidia driver, they’re definitely not including ZFS.